Donut Muffins

1 3/4 cup flour (or you could use 1/2 cup whole flour and 1 1/4 cup all purpose flour)

1 1/2 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp salt

1/4 tsp cinnamon

3/4 cup sugar

1/3 cup vegetable oil

1 egg

3/4 cups milk

1 tsp vanilla extract

• Mix the flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, connamon and nutmeg until combined.
• Make a well in flour mixture
• In the well add oil, egg, milk and vamilla
• Stir wet ingredients into the dry, mixing only until incorporated.
• Spoon into greased muffin tins and bake at 350 degrees for 15 - 20 min. (more like 20)
• Brush cooled muffins with melted utter and sprinkle with cinnamon/sugar or powdered sugar.
  

Brownies for a Crowd

-8 eggs
-2 tsp salt
-2 cups of butter, melted
-1 1/2 cup Hershey's cocoa
-4 cups sugar
-3 cups flour
-2 tsp vanilla

1. Beat eggs with a mixer in a large bowl. Then add sugar, salt, vanilla and beat for 1 min.
2. Add melted butter and blend. In another bowl, mix flour and cocoa with a whisk until well blended
3. Add flour mixture to egg mixture and mix until well combined.
4. Spread onto a greased jelly roll pan (12x17) and bake at 350 degrees for 20-25 min. Cool for 15 min. and spread with frosting.

Frosting

• 4 cups powdered sugar
• 1/2 cup butter
• 1/2 cocoa
• milk

Blend powdered sugar, butter, and cocoa along with enough milk to make the frosting a spreadable consistency. Spread over the brownies after they had cooled for 15 min. Keep spreading as the frosting melts making it nice and even on the brownies. Allow brownies to continue to cool. Makes 30 good sized brownies.

Heavenly Dessert

Mix Well:

1/2 cups sugar

1 cup flour

1 stick margarine

1/2 cup chopped nuts

Press in the bottom of a 9x12" pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 15 min. and cool.

Mix well together:

1 cup powdered sugar

1 pkg cream cheese (8oz)

1 cup Cool Whip (buy 12 oz use 1 cup now and rest later)

Spread over crust:

Mix together:

3 cups cold milk

2 small pkg instant pudding (any flavor)

Beat well until starting to set. Pour over other ingredients and let set for 10 min. pread the rest of Cool Whip over top and sprinkle nuts on top. Keep refrigerated.

Chilled Fruit Cup

1 can (12 oz) frozen pineapple juice concentrate, thawed
1 can (6oz) frozen orange juice concentrate, thawed
1 cup water
1 cup sugar
2 tbs lemon juice
3 medium bananas sliced
1 pkg (16 oz) frozen unsweetened strawberries (I have used sweetened strawberries and reduced the sugar
1 can (15 oz) mandarin oranges
1 can (8oz) crushed pineapple
clear plastic cups

In a large bowl, prepare pineapple juice concentrate according to package directions. Add orange juice concentrate, water, sugar, lemon juice and fruit.

Spoon into plastic cups. Place cups in a pan and freeze. Remove from the freezer at least 40-50 before serving. Serve with spoons. (You kind of break up the frozen fruit with your spoon and eat it like a slush, you can also add 7-up to make it bubbly)

Poor Mans Cake

This cake is made with tomato juice and no eggs.

3/4 cup shortening
1 cup sugar
1 cup tomato juice
3/4 cup water
1 tsp soda
3 cup flour
3/4 tsp salt
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp Cinnamon
1 1/2 tsp nutmeg
1 tsp cloves

Mix altogether Bake in a slow oven at 350 for about 35 min. until done. Bake in a 9x13 pan.

This recipe was my Grandmother Porters. My mothers mother.

Carmel Corn

1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup Karo syrup
1 cube butter or margarine (half of a cup)
1 can sweetened condensed milk
1 tsp vanilla
20 cups Popped popcorn

Add brown sugar, Karo syrup, and butter. Cook it till it comes to a rolling boil. Add 1 can sweet condensed milk. Bring to rolling boil again. Add 1 tsp vanilla. Pour over popcorn and mix.

You may need more or less popcorn depending on how much Carmel you like on your popcorn.

Hot Fudge Topping

2 cups of sugar

1 can evaporated milk

6 tbs of cocoa plus 2 tbs of butter or margarine

1 tsp vanilla

Cook over medium heat at a slow boil for 15 min.

Beat until it looses it glossy.

Serve on your favorite ice cream

Vinegar Dumplings

This recipe my Grandmother Alice made often. I suppose that when they were in the thick of the depression and few ingredients to fix. They fix this. It has become a tradition at our Thanksgiving table. Now that she is gone I want to carry on the tradition

1 cup of vinegar

4 cups of water

1 1/2 cup sugar

1 tsp cinnamon

1/4 tsp nutmeg

1/4 tsp cloves

1/4 tsp allspice

1/4 tsp salt

Mix all ingredients together and bring to a boil. Thicken with cornstarch mixed with water. Pour sauce into a 9x13 deep baking dish.

On the top place sweetened biscuits (recipe below)

4 cups of flour

6 tsp baking powder

1 tsp salt

1/2 cup shortening (I like Crisco)

1/2 sugar

1 1/2 cup of milk or enough to make a soft dough

Now you can either drop the dough on top of the sauce or you can roll them out and cut with a biscuit cutter and place them on the sauce. Either way work fine. If my granny was out to cow camp dropping them onto the sauce was what she did, if she was at home she would roll them out and cut them with a biscuit cutter to make them look nicer.

You then bake them at 375 for about 45 min. or until the biscuits is golden brown.

Sounds strange, but try it, I like it, especially with a little ice cream or whipped cream

Pie Crust Mix

My Grandmother Alice was an excellent Pie Maker. I use to love to go over to her house when she was making pie and watch her shape her dough adding wonderful sweet felling to make such a magical treat. I love the way she cut her dough in the center. I still am trying to figure our how she did it. I can't make the top of my Pie to look as inviting as her, but my family seem to love my pies and well as I loved hers.

I found a Pie Crust mix that I love. In our busy world it help to have this on hand for ........... just in case times.

16 cups flour
6 cups of lard [I prefer Crisco Vegetable Shortening]
6 tsp salt


Mix all ingredients in a very large bowl. Cut the shortening into the flour and salt to resemble corn meal. After you have mixed all the ingredients. You take about 1 cup to 1 1/2 cup for a single crust or 2 to 2 1/2 cups for a double crust of the mix, depending on how thick that want you crust to be. Add enough water to make a soft dough. Roll out to the size of your pie dish. Place dough in your pie dish. You add your ingredients. If you are making a custard or lemon pie now is the time that you bake your crust. Make sure that you take a fork and poke hole in the dough to keep it from forming air pockets and letting the steam out.

I then place the remaining dough into jars. I use quart size jars. About 3 cups of the mix will fit into the jars. I then place the jars into the freezer to keep until I need them for my next pie. Pretty handy.......Ya think.

This is a step up from my Granny, I am able to make them up ahead of time, because of modern conviences of a freezer.

Pecan Pie

3 eggs slightly beaten

1 cup of karo

1 cup of white sugar also good with brown sugar

1/2 cup margine

1 cup pecan halves or pieces

1 tsp vanilla

Mix ingredients in order listed. Pour into a 9" pie plate lined with pie crust. Bake in hot oven 450 for 10 min. then reduce to 350 and bake for 35 min. Let cook at least 2 hours to let it set up.

Peanut Butter Brownies

2 1/4 cup flour
2 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
2/3 cup butter softened
2/3 cup peanut butter
1 1/4 cup sugar
1 1/4 cup brown sugar, packed
1 tsp vanilla
3 eggs
12 oz chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a bown combine all ingredients, starting with dry then adding the rest. Mix well. It will resemble brownie mixture. Pour in a 9x13 cake pan. Bake for 35 min. Very good served with milk

Oatmeal Chocolate Caramel Bars

OH MY GOSH! I gained 2 lbs just smelling this stuff and 5 lbs eating just one bar. Please help me! This is so goood, that my will power will truly be tempted.

1 1/2 cup flour

1 1/2 cup oatmeal

1/4 tsp salt

1/2 tsp baking soda

1 1/2 cups brown sugar

1 cup melted butter

14 oz bag of Carmel's

1/2 cup milk

1 12 oz package semisweet chocolate chips

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Mix the first six ingredients together and sprinkle half on the bottom of a 9x13 in baking pan. Bake 10 to 15 min. until lightly browned.

Meanwhile, melt the caramels and milk in a saucepan over low heat or in the microwave at 50% power, stirring often, until the mixture is smooth. When the bars have been removed from the oven, sprinkle the chocolate chips over the crust and pour the melted caramel over the top. Sprinkle the rest of the crust over the top and bake in the oven for an additional 10-12 min. until the caramel is bubbling and edges are lightly browned. Cool the bars completely before serving so that they can set up properly.

Monkey Bread

3 cans canned biscuits or from your Light bread recipe and roll into balls. Mix sugar and cinnamon in a bowl, roll balls in mixture and chopped nuts. Alternate above ingredients in bundt pan sprayed with Pan.

In a sauce pan mix 1 cube of butter, 1/2 cup brown sugar. Melt and mix. Pour mixture over dough and bake at 350 degrees (watch) turn out on to a cake dish. Let cool. Ready to eat.

Pumpkin Bars

1 cup brown sugar
1 cup pumpkin
1/2 cup oil
2 tsp vanilla
1 egg
2 cups flour
1 tsp soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1/2 tsp ginger

Mix all ingredients together. Place in a 9x13 pan. Bake in a 350 oven until a toothpick comes out clean about 25 min. You may add raisins nuts or chocolate chips. When cooled add cream cheese frosting on the top. Yummy

Rice for Breakfast

2 cups cooked rice
3 cups milk - a little half and half or cream is good
Add honey or sugar to taste - approx 1/4 cup
2 eggs beaten until foamy
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1/2 cup raisins (or more to your liking)

Mix together and heat on low heat do not boil. For variety: add: 1 tbs vanilla or 1 tbs lemon extract. Also good for a dessert served with a homemade oatmeal cookie.

Whipped Topping

2 cups cold water (ice water is the best)
2 cups nonfat dry milk sprinkled on top of water

Be sure bowl and beaters are ice cold too. Beat at tow speed until blended, then beat at a high speed until the mixture is stiff. Add: small amount of sugar and vanilla or favorite flavoring.

Serve over bowl of sliced peaches or any favorite canned fruit. This topping does not hold up too long but is delicious when served immediately after whipping.